I think the reset has to go well into the culture as well.
It's been a process of patching the tears in the previous patches pretty much from the beginning.
Bacteria operate on an infinite growth formula as well. The problem is the edge of the petri dish.
The advantage of multicellular organisms is being able to sense and navigate their situation.
That people form social super organisms, government evolves as the nervous system, with mediums of exchange, money and banking, as blood and the circulation system.
As cells in this entity, people resent the authority of government, but are in thrall to the possibilities of money.
This has given banking the upper hand and currently the only real job the flunkies allowed in office have, is running up the debt the banks need to grow metastatically.
The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
The Federal debt really started growing with the New Deal, so not only was Roosevelt putting unemployed labor back to work, but unemployed capital, as well.
The WW2 came along as the largest public works project in the nation's history and the military became the golden child.
That the juvenile delinquents in DC feel the need to go play cowboys and Indians on the other side of the planet is just a symptom of how little control they do have, over the health of the country.
The puppet masters have been firing the smart ones that wouldn't do what they are told and hiring dumb ones that would, for so long the current crop of seat warmers would make the average kindergarten class look like strategic geniuses. Think Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Vietnam.
While people see money as signal to save and store, markets need it to circulate, so Econ 101 refers to it as both medium of exchange and store of value.
In your body, blood is the medium, fat is the store. Mix them up and see how long you live.
Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. If we treated roads like we treat money, everything would be paved over and we would be fighting over our lots.
The hallway is a medium, the hall closet is a store. The average five year old understands the difference.
As a medium you own money like you own the section of road you are on, or the air and water flowing through your body. It is a public utility. It doesn't have your picture on it, you don't hold the copyrights and, most importantly, are not responsible for its value, like a personal check.
It is a social contract, that enables the economy to function, not a commodity to mine from it. So to store the asset side of the ledger, there has to be debt to back it. Hence the need for all that debt. Your country's savings is being spent blowing up people on the other side of the planet. How will that will pay off?
While the blob might think debt doesn't matter, eventually it really does, as any twenty year old quickly finds out.
Then we have that meltdown.
And next time, make the banks a public utility, like government.
